[FC-discuss] "Scientific publishers get a law introduced to end free publication of govt-funded research"

[Gavin Baker]

Yes, please get involved :)

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Elizabeth Stark wrote:
> There's a great opportunity for us to get involved in activism against
> this bill, especially involving chapters. Ideas for how we can best do
> this?
> 
> I know Change Congress is looking to target it as well.
> 
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 6:19 AM, Rob Myers <rob at robmyers.org
> <mailto:rob at robmyers.org>> wrote:
> 
>     http://www.boingboing.net/2009/02/16/scientific-publisher.html
> 
>     "Steve sez, "Currently, the National Institutes of Health require
>     NIH-funded research to be published in open-access repositories. In a
>     cop to for-profit science publishers, Congressional Representative
>     John Conyers (D-MI) has re-introduced a bill (HR801) that essentially
>     would negate the NIH policy concerning depositing research in OA
>     repositories. The bill goes further than prohibiting open access
>     requirements, however, as the bill also prohibits government agencies
>     from obtaining a license to publicly distribute, perform, or display
>     such work by, for example, placing it on the Internet, and would
>     repeal the longstanding 'federal purpose' doctrine, under which all
>     federal agencies that fund the creation of a copyrighted work reserve
>     the 'royalty-free, nonexclusive right to reproduce, publish, or
>     otherwise use the work' for any federal purpose. The bill is bad
>     news." "
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